Book Details

Consumer Health Informatics

Publication year: 2005

ISBN: 978-0-387-27652-6

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This comprehensive volume the inclusion of several case studies serves to examine pertinent topics, namely computer-based information for cancer; National Library of Medicine initiatives; and web-based patient preferences and utilities. Designed for use by medical IT specialists, physicians, nurses, healthcare providers, and professors and students of medical informatics, the book's chapter highlights include patient empowerment; frameworks and models for health behavior change and patient education; patient to patient communication; patient to provider communication; privacy and confidentiality; ethical issues; evaluation methods, and more.


Subject: Medicine, Medical IT, evaluation, health informatics, healthcare, informatics, medical informatics, medicine, population